Since 1977. Started out with a Lee loader and the powder scoop set sitting on the floor using my coffee table. Now I got 2 Dillons and a Lee turret press, electronic powder scale, etc.

Since 2007 or 2008. Started with 9mm on a Lee Classic Turret. Upgraded to Hornady LNL and Single stage presses, case feeders, Giraud sizer, Dillon Swage tool. I only reload 9mm, 380acp, 223 and 243 Win. I'm sure I am not saving any money, but I enjoy it and use much better bullets and components overall than I would get for bulk ammo. And my precision loads for my heavy barrel AR and 243 Win bolt gun are much more accurate than I could get off the shelf at any price.

Been doing it for 20 years now. Started in 2003 because I thought that 38 special was stupid expensive so I save my brass and bought a Rockcrusher. As I added calibers I added tooling for those calibers along with brass and bullets. Up to 2018 all I loaded was handgun and rifle.

Then my nephew prodded me into shooting Sporting Clays and things got just a bit out of hand. My primary activity is 4 gun Skeet and now I have one Rock Chucker on my reloading bench with 6 shotshell presses from 12 gauge to 410 all lined up. The 12, 20, 28, and 410 all have single stage presses and the two progressives are the 410 and 28 gauge. Last year I went thru 14,000 209 primers and would guess that 70% were for 410 and 25% was for 28 gauge.

Since 1970.

My Dad and I each got a Remington 700 BDL Varmint Special. Mine in .222 Rem and his in 22-250. The first load I picked out of the reloading book did 10 shots under a dime at 100 yards for the .222 so I never bothered trying another. Dad could get 10 shots under a nickel with the 22-250 and I KNOW that always bothered him. Both 700's were set up with John Unertl external adjustment target telescopes.
BTW, my new Remington 700 BDL Varmint Special .222 was $99 out the door plus tax at that time from a nationally known sporting goods chain.
It had been in the rifle display rack for some time and had some tiny handling marks on it.
Dad, and the pair of Remington 700's are long gone. I can still remember the numbers for the outstanding .222 loading as far as the type of powder, how many grains/powder, and projectile.

I started reloading with a RCBS A2 press (Dad's) and when I purchased my first home with a basement, I bought a RCBS Rock Chucker.
In my 40's I discovered USPSA/IPSC competition and added an RCBS Piggyback 2 conversion kit to my Rock Chucker. It's a five station progressive.
Then I stumbled onto a big Redding single stage press at a garage sale for ten bucks. It required some rust removal but otherwise it was in great shape.

I use the Redding press for all rifle cartridges, and for low annual usage handguns. Changing the caliber on the progressive is somewhat time consuming.
The RCBS Rock Chucker with the Piggyback 2 conversion is almost always set up for 9 X 19, but I have used it for many other calibers in the past and have all the caliber conversion parts/dies/shellplates.
RCBS has been OUTSTANDING providing wear parts for the Piggyback 2 progressive conversion. It is no longer in production. They still provide support/parts for it.
I also have dies, shell holders, components, and powder for almost every rifle & handgun caliber in the household inventory. Likely 90+ %.
There is a Lee 12 gauge loader tucked away, and boxes of components that I have never used. But certainly could if it was needed.

My personal opinion is that every responsible firearm owner should have the capability to be able to reload ammunition for at least a few of their firearms.
Unfortunately for us shooters/firearms owners, the liberals/communists/socialists have discovered that without ammunition, firearms are only as deadly as clubs, baseball bats and hammers.

Yep, since maybe 1970. Thats a lot of years now. I can't even remember how many calibers. Also got others started, too.

About 20 years, +/-.

I started with a Lee turret press to make 9mm for IDPA. I was shooting it regularly back then. My teen daughters quickly got involved in IDPA too, so reloading was all about saving $$. I now have a Lee progressive as well as a single stage, plus shotshell press. All the Lee stuff works well for me.

I owned a WWII Japanese Arisaka and discovered factory ammo was stupid expensive, so I started loading for it. I learned about making ultra-weak loads for the kids, but they really didn't have much interest.

Then I acquired a couple more WWII rifles and then an XD40 handgun, which I reloaded for.

Somewhere in there I got a 20 gauge youth shotgun for my son and started loading reduced power loads for it.

More recently I haven't done any reloading for the last 4 years because of no place to set up in this house. That will be changing very soon and I look forward to getting busy!

When I was 4 or 5 I started "helping" dad reload, de-priming 45ACP brass. I can still remember sitting there at the bench, rolling the brass on the sticky lube pad, then putting them in the press to knock the primers out. I know I must have been slowing him down to a snail's pace, but it was quality time.

I helped/watched him for years.

Somewhere around 13-14 years old, we were planning on going "upstate" to my grandfather's hunting cabin, where we did all our shooting. I mentioned to dad that I would really like to shoot his .357 Mag when we go. He said "Well load some ammo, you know what you're doing." So I did. And loaded solo from then on out.



Soon to be 55, still loading much of my pistol ammo and all my rifle ammo on that same Rockchucker press.

Been reloading since the early 70's. Started out with a Mec 600JR. Whacked a lot of ducks and upland game with those 12 gauge loads. Progressed into rifle and pistol rounds in the 80's It is nice to understand the nuances and tune different loads for different platforms.

It was probably 2011-2012. I started with .357/38 and 9mm on a Lee Classic Turret, then got a Hornady LNL, and finally a Lee Classic Cast single stage. I've since picked up a couple of other presses for specific tasks, but those three are still my go-tos. I actually have an RCBS Rebel on the shelf because I like my Lee Classic Cast better. The LNL is dedicated to 9mm, the LCT does all of my other pistol stuff that I load at lower volumes than 9mm, and the single-stage does most of the rifle stuff. I put a Hornady LNL insert in it, and have my dies set in the bushings for quick caliber changes.

Currently I load for:
.32 ACP
.32 S&W Long
.380
.357/38
9mm
.40 S&W (and have been saving brass and projectiles for 10mm, but I don't own a gun yet)
.44 Magnum
.45 ACP
.45 Schofield
.45 Colt

.223
.303 Brit
.30-30
.30-40 Krag
.308
.30-06
7.5x55 Swiss
6.5x55 Swede
.45-70

There may be a few more that I can't remember at the moment.

Being able to reload has definitely not saved me money, but has allowed me to shoot more and branch out and explore different areas of the hobby that I would have never been able to afford if I didn't have that capability. Milsurps and magnum pistol calibers can be really expensive to feed, but once I have the brass reloading lets me do it for not much more than commercial 9mm.

Started in 1992 with a Dillon SDB in .45 Auto. Still on my bench and in use to this day!

Since about 2000. There have been periods where my press sat idle and periods where I was cranking out 1000 rounds of 45 acp a week. I’m trying to feed a new Marlin 44 mag lever and the best way to feed it appears to be cranking the Dillon back up.

~2008. I was a graduate student at NMT. I put the bench in the spare bedroom of our apartment. It was a Dillon 550.

I bought my Rock Chucker in 1981. What is that? Almost 45 years.

did the lee loader in the early 80's and did not like it,

started shooting High Power about 1994 or so and started reloading with a Forster Co Ax press, and a Dillon,

now, have 5 presses., but the Co Ax gets most of the work

Mod 1970’s as a young kid under the tutelage of my older brother. All those years still on an old school single stage press.

Since about 2009 or 2010.

Probably 30+ years. Although I haven't done much in the last few years due to the price of primers. I'm sitting on several thousand, but it's been cheaper to buy bulk ammo.

I've been reloading .380, 9mm, 38/357, 44, 45, 7-30 Waters, 22 Hornet, 30/06, 30 Carbine, 8mm Mauser, 7.5 Swiss, 303 British.

Not that it matters for the thread but I don’t recall what reloader I had before my Dillon. Right now I’m pretty sure it wasn’t the Lee. Oh well, point being I really enjoy my 550B.

I started around 1969 with a Star in .45, then a 1050 that I eventually automated.

After starting trap, skeet and sporting clays, added shotshell in 12 gauge.

I have loaded and fired well over a million round of reloads. Sadly, I am now disabled and no longer active in the shooting sports.

I also was known in the Bullseye Community in the 80’s as “Mr. ClearsighT” I created a clip-on lens system for Iron Sight Shooters; also no longer in production after over ten thousand sales.

Off and on since the early 90's. Haven't done much lately, I can't find large rifle primers to save my life for the past year or so.